Quick question about a A64 skt 754 comp

[Spike]

I just setup a friend with this combo. It seemed like a decent deal and he needed a computer real fast as his old mobo died. After the install all is working fine and I left him installing windows but I had a sudden realization. His ram is only 333 ram and the cpu supposedly runs at '400'. I don't know much about the 64 memory controller but I do know that it does not follow old doctorine, thats why you have things like memory controllers.

The thing is, when looking through the bios I never found a setting for changing the ram speed, just it's voltage. There was no typical FSB setting (as is probably the case in all A64 setups) so I could not figure out how to change it. It all seemed to be running fun, though the win xp setup was going slower than normal.

Will the mobo automatically run the ram at 333? If so then I won't worry about it. He wants to get some new ram and will probably go for a 2x512mb of DDR400 sometime soon but for now this is his ram. Any ideas?

Thanks!

-spike

PS This question is kinda embarrasing for me. I have built many computers but realized as I was assembling his that this was the first A64 setup I had done and that there might be some differences.

 

[Bull Dog]

Hit Control + F1 at the main bios screen. stupid Gigabyte like the hide the real OC settings.

 

[Spike]

Originally posted by: Bull Dog
Hit Control + F1 at the main bios screen. stupid Gigabyte like the hide the real OC settings.

Ah, ok, never owned a gigabyte board before. I won't have a chance to do that for a few days (the comp is at the friends house), will the ram be ok in the meantime running at stock settings?

 

[cryptonomicon]

A64s use a feature called a "MEMORY DIVIDER", which is normally set to AUTO, meaning your computer will auto detect the DDR333 speed and set it to that independently.

If not, you can try setting the memory divider yourself, which should be "5/6"

(400 * 5/6 = 333)

 

[Spike]

That makes me feel a little better. I hope the ram does not fail due to being run at a different than stock speed. He was all-ready hesitant about dropping $200 on a new core setup, I don't want to add ram to that.

-spike

 

[charloscarlies]

Originally posted by: Spike
That makes me feel a little better. I hope the ram does not fail due to being run at a different than stock speed. He was all-ready hesitant about dropping $200 on a new core setup, I don't want to add ram to that.

-spike

Nah you'll be fine. It won't "fail". The worst you'll probably see is random reboots or no POST if the ram is being run out of spec. If that's the case just set a divider and you'll be good to go.